Wagon-bolster.



No. 755,532. PATENTED MAR. 22, 1904.

J. W. PATTERSON.

WAGON BOLSTER.

APPLICATION IILED APR. 1, 1903.

UNTTnn STaTns Patented March 22, 1904.

PATENT @TTTcn.

WAGON-BOLSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,532, dated March 22, 1904.

Application filed April 1, 1903. Serial No. 150,619. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OI-IN WILLIAM PATTER- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Madisonville, in the county of Hopkins and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wagon Bolsters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wagons, more particularly standards therefor, having for its object to promote strength or durability and at the same time combining therewith lightness, and to provide for the application thereof without previous adjustment, fitting, or cutting of the bolster; and said invention consists of the detailed construction, combination, and arrangement of the constituent parts substantially as herein after more fully disclosed, and specifically pointed out by the claims concluding the following specification.

In the accompanying drawing, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention,

the view thereof, which is a perspective, shows the same applied to a wagon-bolster, the last named being shown broken away.

, In the carrying out of my invention I constitute the standard of an upright main member '1, a substantially parallel brace member 2, and loops or bands 4: 5, arranged intermediately of the former. Theupper half (about) of said main member is preferably an initiative pawl-like straight portion 9, having at its extreme upper end an eye or aperture 3, through which may be passed, and affording convenient means for the attachment of, chains or ropes (not shown) for the binding of the load .upon the wagon. The lower half (about) of said main member comprises two divergent plate-like branches or legs 1, the extreme lower ends of which are perpendicular or straight, and thus conformed to and are Secured laterally to the bolster 10 by preferably a common bolt 8, combined lightness and strength or durability thus being the outcome of such construction. The brace memher 2, with which and the main member 1 are integrally formed the loops or bands 4 5, is spaced off or removed a short distance from said main member, being connected thereto, as will be thus understood, andlaterally flanged or extended at its lower end, as at 2*, the flange or extension thus formed resting flat upon the bolster and apertured to provide for the bolting, as at 7, of said brace to the top of the latter, said brace thus being adapted to effectively resist all outward lateral thrusts delivered or brought upon the main member or standard. Said loops or bands are designed to receive and hold a stake (not shown) as may be used, especially in lumber-wagons, to form an upward extension of the standard as the size of the load of the wagon may demand, as well understood.

In the aforesaid construction and arrangement of parts it will be observed that the means of receiving the standard extension or stake is interposed between the standard and the brace, thus providing for also bracing said stake or standard extension by the same means employed in bracing said standard, as also for enabling the passing of the stake downward clear to the bolster and permitting the same to bear thereon, and, further, the inserting in said loops or bands of an improvised stake or one not requiring to be previously adapted or fitted to the means for holding or receiving it, as heretofore. Said arrangement also serves to clamp or laterally brace the bolster as against checking or splitting from the strain exerted upon the standard. Said standard as thus constructed may be made of malleable or non-malleable metal and of course in a single piece or entirety.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A wagon-standard comprising astandard member proper, an upright brace member, and loops or bands arranged'between the two former members all secured together, said standard and brace member being relatively fixed, and parallel from the lower stake-receiving loop, upward to the upper stake-receiving loop.

2. A wagon-standard embracing a standard member proper, having upper panel-like portion terminatingdownward in lower divergent portions or legs, an upright brace member having an apertured lateral base-flange, and

loops or bands interposed between said two former members all secured together, said standard and brace member being relatively fixed, and parallel from the lower stake-receiving loop, upward to the upper stake-receiving loop.

3. A device of the character described, embracing a standard member, a brace member, and stake-receiving loops arranged between said members at their upper ends and some distance below said upper ends respectively, all of said parts being in fixed relation, said brace member being presented toward the edge of said standard member and having connection with the upper surface of the bolster, and said standard and brace member being parallel from the lower stake-receiving loop, upward to the upper stake-receiving In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN WILLIAM PATTERSON.

Witnesses:

W. A. LUNSFORD, G. W. NISBET. 

